Langbeschreibung
"A major innovation for the subfields of environmental sociology and ecological social theory. Building on the Weberian theoretical framework of social closure, coupled with a social practices approach, Murphy presents the climate crisis in a new, and dare I say even hopeful, light."
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I Analysing the Problem.- Chapter 2. Cooperation between Natural Science and Social Science.- Chapter 3. Social Closure in the Anthropocene: The Environment as a Medium for Monopolisation and Exclusion.- Chapter 4. Energy: Paying its Full Cost, Belatedly or Upon Use?.- Chapter 5. Stuck in Dangerous Carbon Polluting Practices?.- Chapter 6. A Pattern When Exploiting Valuable but Dangerous Resources.- Part II: Assessing Solutions.- Chapter 7. Risk and Safety; Real and Staged.- Chapter 8. Are Safe Social Practices on the Horizon?.- Chapter 9. Faith 2.0 in the Mastery of Nature.- Chapter 10. Technological Solutions and Social-technological Solutions.- Chapter 11. Foresight or Discounting Danger?.